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The World War I Photographs series contains several images taken in British Columbia from 1914 to 1919 in relation to the Great War. The largest categories of pictures include photographs of troops' departures from Victoria and Vancouver, as ...

CALL NUMBER: T0352:0001 - 0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Samuel Bombini came from Calabria, Italy in 1900, and came to BC for rich mining prospects. Bombini describes the life and people of the Boundary regio...

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Mildred Roylance begins this interview by singing "Home on the Range" and she tells the story of Colin Scott McRae, a young man from Ontario who wrote the song and came to ...

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-17 SUMMARY: Mrs. Marjorie Reynolds came from Grimsby, Ontario to Grand Forks in 1900 with her father, who used to be a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. She discusses orchards and nurseries and the...

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-17 SUMMARY: Mr. Donald C. Manly's parents came from Michigan to Grand Forks in 1892. In this interview, Mr. Manly discusses his father's store, the local dentist, his home, the dance hall, his owner...

CALL NUMBER: T0346:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Maitland Harrison came from England in 1908 with hopes of fruit farming. He describes the area around Queen's Bay and Crawford Bay and some of the early sett...

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-16 SUMMARY: Mr. George "Romey" Kingsley came from Washington with his father in 1899 and landed in Midway. He went to Anarchist Mountain, then known as Rock Mountain, though people called it One-Eye...

CALL NUMBER: T0348:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-20 SUMMARY: Mr. Gerald Harpur landed in Midway on Sept 22, 1912, and settled as a fruit farmer in the Kettle Valley, farming mostly apples. He talks about his life, where he came from...

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-20 SUMMARY: Mrs. Edna Bonnet, originally from Suffolk, England, came to Canada with her father because she wanted to raise horses. They sailed from Liverpool just after the "Titanic" had sunk in 19...

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Carl Thomet was born in Midway in 1905, and lived his whole life there. The interview begins with a description of the railway built in 1900. The first passenger railway service was call...

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Major H. Cuthbert Holmes speaks about J.D. Pemberton's early life; his arrival in the colony of Vancouver island in 1851; his education; his work as surveyor; his membership in the exec...

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-02-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Fred Lade recalls events of the West Kootenays and Arrow Lakes District. He begins with his recollections of playing music for dances, descriptions of those dances, social events and win...

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-03-09 SUMMARY: Mr. E.W. (Bill) LaChance recalls his experiences working as an locomotive fireman and engineer for the CPR, based in Revelstoke. This interview mainly relates his story as the sole survivor of the...

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-30 SUMMARY: Andy Gray recalls in detail his career on the CPR. Born in Scotland, he came to Canada in 1890 and then to Vancouver 1892. He began work on the CPR in 1906 as a "wiper", then a fireman,...

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. G.H. Williamson recalls his 40 year career with the CPR. Born in Toronto, he moved to Donald, B.C., in 1892 and started with the railways. By 1900 he was working as an engineer. He ...

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Eve Parker came from England to Donald, BC in 1892. She describes her childhood in Donald, and the social life and customs of the community. She traveled throughout the province e...

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-01-29 SUMMARY: TRACKS 1 & 2: Doug Abrahamson recalls Revelstoke at the turn of the century. His family came from Sweden, settled in Revelstoke and built and ran the Central Hotel. He describes the social lif...

CALL NUMBER: T0344:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-21 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Eugene Leveque's family came from Winnipeg to Alberta and, in 1904, to Revelstoke. He recalls early Revelstoke including its red light district, local miners...

CALL NUMBER: T0345:0001 RECORDED: New Denver (B.C.), 1965-05-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Alexander Harris describes prospecting and mining in the Arrow and Kootenay Lakes area in the 1890s. His father, Joseph Harris, came to Slocan in 1896, establishe...

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-11-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 2: Reverend A.H. Sovereign, Bishop of Athabasca, talks about coming to BC as a young deacon in 1906; he recalls his first impressions of Vancouver, streetcars and the city centre. He descri...

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Lidster came to BC with his family from England in 1902; Lister, his father, was an early technical teacher in Vancouver. Mr. Lidster recalls New Westminster; various streets; Columbia ...

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Tommy Wycotte discusses his early work as a labourer, cowboy and teamster. He also talks about Indian medicine, fighting between Indian bands, hunting and gathering in hard times, th...

This series consists of 71 photographs documenting the natural history collection at the Provincial Museum in Victoria, British Columbia taken between 1886 and the 1920s. The photographs are attributed to Albert Hatherly Maynard (1857-1934), son o...

This series consists of 20 photographs of experimental works of photographer Hannah Maynard (1834-1918) of Mrs. R. Maynard’s Photographic Gallery produced by Mrs. R. Maynard between 1880 and 1899. Photographs are attributed to Hannah with a small ...

This series consists of 67 nineteenth century photographs of First Nations and Indigenous individuals and groups taken between the early 1860s and the late 1880s to early 1890s. The bulk of the photographs are attributed to English photographers F...

Studio portrait (mid-length, side profile) of an unidentified Indigenous individual taken at a photographic studio attributed to Frederick Dally. The sitter has a blanket draped around their shoulders, held by a pin. The sitter's gaze is look...

Studio portrait (mid-length) of an unidentified Indigenous individual taken at a photographic studio attributed to Frederick Dally. The sitter is wearing American/European clothes. Their hands are visible and are intertwined and placed above their...